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When can the -ing form of a verb be placed before a noun?
My native-speaker's grammatical intuition tells me that:
There is a sleeping man under the tree.
is fine but
There is a fishing man by the river bank.
is wrong. Why?
I've thought about ...
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2answers
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Is “Should be *ing” a valid English phrasing?
I'm Portuguese and my girlfriend German. Because she is a Germanic-language native-speaker, she is constantly correcting my English. Though, often it is annoying that she corrects me in grammar ...
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votes
4answers
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Doubts about using “to+ ing”
I heard this sentence in a film:
We are one step closer to ending this.
I do not know why we have to use "ending" instead of "end".
Is "Step to" a phrasal verb?
4
votes
1answer
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Looking forward to follow vs. following
I was reading this today:
We look forward to following your progress.
Am I correct in thinking that it is missing a be or -ing should be removed?
So
We look forward to be following your progress.
...
3
votes
1answer
959 views
Like to vs like + ing [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“I like to do (be) something” vs “I like doing (being) something”
Hello,
Is there any difference of meaning between these sentences?
I like to get up early
I like ...
2
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1answer
148 views
Passive auxiliary verb or progressive one?
Uncle Vernon made another funny noise, like a mouse being trodden on.
—Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Is ‘being’ a passive auxiliary verb or a progressive one?
2
votes
2answers
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For + verb-ing at the beginning of a sentece
Is the following sentence structure grammatically correct? I mean, I've found a lot of examples that have this structure but not at the beginning of the phrase but with a subject before. Here is an ...
2
votes
1answer
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Apart from + infinitive
A piece of news from the BBC reads as follows [emphasis in the original]:
The UN has said very little on the matter, apart from to insist it
is immune from legal proceedings.
Now, I knew that ...
2
votes
2answers
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I've been seeing good movies or I've been watching good movies? [duplicate]
what would you rather say? Which one is correct?
Thanks,Herman.
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vote
1answer
133 views
How to pronounce '-ing' followed by a vowel
I'm getting into English recently and I'm a little confused by the way people pronounce a word that starts in a vowel right after a word ending in -ing.
For example:
You have to bring it up now?
...
0
votes
3answers
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Why different tenses? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using verb tenses correctly
This is a quote from The Great Gatsby:
She smiled slowly and, walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, ...
0
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2answers
728 views
“while at the same time” + -ing form?
In following sentence, I'm not sure if I have to use the -ing form or the infinitive.
I wanted to get rid of X, while at the same time not assuming/ assume
that...
The -ing form sounds better, ...
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votes
1answer
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Occupy vs. occupying
Please read the following sentence:
Determine the mechanism by which the elements occupying the system interact with one another.
Is occupying grammatically correct in this context? Should that ...
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votes
2answers
101 views
Ambiguities and use of infinite and “-ing” form [closed]
I was looking for videos on YouTube, in my (almost) daily exercise to attempt improving my understanding of the spoken English, when I settled for a video entitled: "Why you will fail to have a great ...
